The Reluctant African: The Life and Irascibility of Doris Lessing
2013年11月21日 · First Person: Admiring Doris Lessing's Decision to Forgo an Ordinary, Decent Life. The Nobel Prize-winning author was a trailblazer and iconoclast in literature and in life.
African Stories - Doris Lessing
This book includes every story written by Doris Lessing about Africa: all of her first collection, This Was the Old Chief's Country (unavailable in America); the four tales about Africa from Five (also unavailable); the African stories from The Habit of Loving and A Man and Two Women and four stories never before collected.
Doris Lessing's Africa : Thorpe, Michael - Archive.org
Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013 -- Knowledge -- Africa, Africa -- In literature Publisher New York : Africana Pub. Co. Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English
Michael Thorpe's Doris Lessing's Africa (1978). Hence their works are particularly welcome as marking a new stage in Lessing scholar-ship in England. Jenny Taylor has brought together essays by eight women who are both inside and outside the academy. The collection does not intend to present a coherent interpretation of Lessing's work but to demon-
Doris Lessing's Africa (Modern African writers) - amazon.com
1978年1月1日 · Doris Lessing's Africa (Modern African writers) [Thorpe, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
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African Stories - Doris Lessing - Google Books
2014年6月24日 · Long considered Nobel Prize winner Doris Lessing’s best collection of short stories, African Stories—a central book in the work of a truly beloved writer—is now back in print. This beautiful...
Analysis of Doris Lessing’s The Old Chief Mshlanga
2022年9月26日 · One of Doris Lessing’s many stories concerning relations between white settlers in Southern Africa and the black communities they have displaced, “The Old Chief Mshlanga” was first published in 1964 in African Stories.
Africa is, as in all Lessing's African stories, not primarily an arena of racial conflict, but an adaptable setting which she exploits to underline from many sides that alienation-the dryness that cancels the green promise-which all experience but few can voice. For Thorpe, Lessing's African oeuvre is best studied in the five-
African Laughter-four visits to Zimbabwe by Doris Lessing
"A highly personal story about returning to her African roots by the eminent British writer, African Laughter is also a rich and penetrating portrait of Doris Lessing's homeland. In it she recounts the visits she made to Zimbabwe in 1982, 1988, 1989 and 1992, after being exiled from the old Southern Rhodesia for twenty-five years for her ...
Doris Lessing (1919 – ) | The Presidency
Her stories and novellas set in Africa, published during the 1950s and early 1960s, decry the dispossession of black Africans by white colonials, and expose the sterility of the white culture in southern Africa.